Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-11-15
LIFE in FLORIDA.

GhanErs-Nuccesstul Prohibition-A
Lively Winter Expected.
Orlando, Florida, Nov. 10. lSS7-To
the Press end Dakotsian:, Our autumn
weather began promptly on the first of
September. Some days as hot as sum-
mer have intervened, but most of the
season has been of delicious temperate
weather. Two or three days in October
we're q little too cool for tender indi-
viduals and evening fires blazed on many
@ family hearth stone. Frost was eagerly
hoped for, as a. relisf for our suffering
sister CITY OF Tampa, where the yellow
fever still hangs on nnd dwiudles away,
panned in by vigorous quarantine. That
is ninety.seven miles away, down ON the
gull coast. All the facts and traditions
OF Florida indicate that yellow fever
cannot thrive In the elevated pine woods
country Of the interior such as Orange
county. Relying on that as a fact, most
OF us have staid here and attended to
our usual affairs, all through the fever
scare. Refugees poured through here
for q few days, till the quarantine was
organized. One refugee printer reached
Palatka. then broke out with the fever
and died: but no q single other case fol-
lowed it.. II Is not contagious in the
way that most other diseases are, but
spreeds in some different manner. An
other Tampa runaway reached Inter
lachen, had the fever aud died; but no
one caught 1t there either.
When Priest Petermann, Of Tampa,
was taken with the fever, the bishop or.
dered Priest Swembergh, OF Orlando,
to go there at once to serve the sick and
dying. On receiving the order he ex-
claimed: 81 am q dead mani But no
further complaint was heard. He went
straight to tue front and faced the
dsnger-iust as you and l, Mr.. Bowen,
and hundreds OF thousands of our COM
rades have done, IN our " time and
manner. In three days he was down
with the yellow fever, and IN q week he
was buried beside Father Petermsnn.
But DIR. Kilmer, of Orlando, went to the
front at the outset of the pestilence, la
bored beyond his strength for weeks,
saved every case that he treated, was
only sick from over-work, and will return
this week covered with glory and praise.
For fifteen days he must idle around
among the sand hills of the lonely quar-
antlne station, then return to his family
here and meet the ovation that Orlando
will bestow on him.
A steady stream of absent residents
has been pouring in, as they come back
from their northern visits. Soon the
winter tourists and inyalids will come
Oh. The heaviest arrivals are just after
Christmas. Oranges are ripening fast,
and are about half turned yellow. But
@ green looking n is already excellent
eating inside. One kind was eatable in
September, but October brought them
into market in greet numbers. Fall
vegetables have begun to be shipped,
such ss cucumbers planted in Septem-
Der. They are o very prolific crop ana
bring steady returns in northern
markets. String beans and other
spring garden truck are also
going forward. A man must be a lazy
gardener who cannot get three crops per
year of the same ground heye and keep
the soil busy all the year round.
We read much OF che immense sugar
industry Of Louisiana but in some re-
spects Florida can beat the Rreas sugar
state. Some of the finest and sweetest
varieties OF cane in the worlc
thrive here aad will not do 30 we'll in tht
colder climate OF Louisiana. There are
probably q hundred places in thi
town where green stalks of sugar can
are retailed at FIVE cents each. TIL
/. farmers bring them in by the mule loads
! The people, especially the blacks, bu.
them to eat. Splitting away the out
! side part they chew the pith and extrac
She luscious Juice. It is astonishing {
: see the general prevalence Of thi
practice. II makes cheap food on
. gratifies the taste. There is much NOR
sense, apparently, in seeing q negro BIO,
peel, chew and enjoy the sugar in
seven foot stalk of cane as big as a has
ball club, than in seeing him try to ex
tract satisfaction from a wad of poison.
: GUS leaves that would kill a dog-il
other words, q cigar. By the way, tn,
agrieulturists of Florida are making
great shout over the superior quality o,
, Havana tobacco they can produce ant
expect to all get rich thereby.
Well Tampa and Key West are gres
: tobacco marts and their prosperity il
largely based on the cigar manufacture
See how it benefits them; they impor
large gangs of low, swarthy, greasy Gu.
bans and Italians to make cigars. These
9 live in d.sgracefully dirty quarters il
| herds worse han Chinese or negroes
they come and go from Havana and
, yellow fever comes too. They are q blot
an eyesore to the refined part of til,
town, like most other gangs of degraded
6 aliens on American soil, and Like mos
: of the others except the Chinese, the,
9 know how to sell their votes to the mos
corrupt party. In the recent copsten
: succession of plctories for prohibition
: and good order, in which about twent.
counties bave gone dry" and banishe'
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